We were under attack, brother. Our
army's laid down there, but we didn't let it hit us. Can't get nobody to go to the
military no more. Nobody buck up. Ain't no men left. We said
we ain't going to fight our battle for the pitiful nation that we
have to because men won't. For a nation that was much more
powerful than us, I mean much more powerful, came. And they gave a declaration.
Do or die. Did you pay attention? It's expectant and it's right
for God's people to have a preacher that preaches as a dying man
to dying men. Isn't it just as expectant and
natural and right to be someone that listens as a person that's
dying? We know what it is, don't we? I looked it up just a few seconds. Unmovable, unshakable, it's what
we're going to look at tonight. John chapter eight. I'll look
through it for you. So if you've got to die and the
government came to read the terms of surrender, you may want to
stick around for the whole thing. Love in body and in conscience.
John chapter eight. We'll be looking at different
parts between verse 21 through verse 50. Unshakable, unmovable,
is. If, word, grammatically speaking,
if is a conditional particle. That is, it mentions conditions
or circumstances. It lists something, mentions
something that's a condition or a circumstance upon which
certain consequences follow. When I was a little kid in school,
they started teaching N.S. Doss. And it was if, then, Satan. If this happens, then this happens. And that's how we raise our children.
If you don't sit still, I'm gonna take my belt off. Then's what
we worry about. It's mighty important. It is
mighty important. These are words of war, we're
about to read. They are conditions of a sinner's
surrender. It's life and death. And there's a lot of people that
think they're not at war. I've watched people in war that
witnessed war, that didn't think they were in war, that died in
war. Pay attention. These are conditions
of war. Do or die. If in, you live. It knocked to him. He died. I was thinking. There was a man
of war, very famous. Y'all may have heard of him called
the Spartans. About smack dab in the middle of Greece. Spartans
were known for their strength. They were known as men of war. This was their business. That
was their name, Spartans. Philip II, Alexander the Great's
daddy. invaded Greece, and he took a
lot of the major cities around the edges. He sent a letter to
the Spartans, who was in the middle. They're completely surrounded.
He says, you are advised to submit without further delay, or if,
if, submit, if, I bring my army to your land, if I come to you,
I will destroy your farms, I will slay your people, and I will
raise your city. Not raise it up, R-A-Z-E, I'm
gonna flatten it. There ain't gonna be nothing
left, no stone will be unheard. That was the conditions of his
surrender. Those Spartans, known for war. Not so much known for their dry
humor, which is outstanding. They wrote back one word, in. You said that's what you gonna
do? Bring it on. That was their response. You want me to submit or fight?
Get to if-ing. That's what you said you were
gonna do. They wrote back one word. If. If. Give it your best
shot. You want trouble? Me too. That's
a warrior. If. Sparta did not submit. They forewent
the consequences. They did not care about the consequences. They were ready. And they wanted
to go ahead and get to the condition. That was their business. Philip
nor his son Alexander, the great master of Sparta, wisely so.
Right in the middle of that island, they left him alone. They knew
better. Sparta fell later. I do not recommend you continue
your war against God. People say, I ain't at war with
God. I do not recommend you continue your war against God. You will
die in your sins. Stop and bow. Surrender. Our Lord's preaching here in
John 8. He gives nine ifs here in John 8. but I want to look
at about five and a half of them. You'll see why it's happening.
There's one kind of opinion, and it's really good and sweet
at the end. It's reassuring to God's people. You know, that's
a, depending on what side of the war you're on, if you were
a small, tiny, little nation, and you went against a mighty,
great nation, and they came with their terms of surrender, you'd
be scared to death, you'd be mad, you'd be angry. You can't
do that to us or I'd run for the hills. But if you were with
that mighty nation, That's wonderful, isn't it? Good. If we had a presence
that was strong and said, this ain't gonna happen. You get one
of mine, I'm coming to get him. Yes. Oh, we like that. Our Lord
gives five and a half conditional statements. Statements that have
an eternal consequence. This is eternal life and death. Listen up. Stick around for it.
First, Christ is the triune God. He's manifested in a human body. He's God in human flesh. And
he came to this earth. Look here, verse 21. Then Jesus
said unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me and shall
die in your sins. Whether I go, ye cannot come.
Then said the Jews, will he kill himself? Because he said, where
I go, ye cannot come. And he said unto them, ye are
from beneath, I am from above. Man is low, God is high. Ye are
of this world, I am not of this world. I said, therefore, unto
you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye believe not that
I am, he's a prophet. If you don't believe that I am,
ye shall die in your sins. What's that mean? He's I am. Not a prophet, he's the prophet.
He's not a son of God, he's the son of God. He's not, well, he's
a mediator. He's the only me in between God
and man. He's not a sacrifice that was
accepted. And now we can do our sacrifices. And I can cut out
there whatever the whim is. He's the only bloody sacrifice
that was forever accepted. He is. He is. That's what Moses
It says in Exodus 3, Moses said unto God, behold, I will come
unto the children of Israel, and they shall say to them, the
God of your fathers hath sent me to you, and they shall say
to me, what's his name? What shall I say to them? Lord,
I'll be your messenger. When I go, they're gonna say,
who sent you? What's the Lord's name? And God said unto Moses,
I am that I am. And he said, thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. He's
the great I am. If, here's the term for surrender,
if you believe not that I am, you shall die in your sins. What's
this book say that he is? We could go on and try that for
four years, too, yeah? What's his name? What is it that
he is? He's everything he said he is.
He's Jehovah Jireh. We just looked at those names
of the Lord. Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. Do you trust
him to provide everything that God requires of you? Or are you
99%? Have you surrendered to these
terms of war? Or are you still providing something? Jehovah right for the Lord, the
halo that you trust Christ to heal all of your spiritual sin,
all of your sickness by his precious blood. Or are you still cleaning
up the outside of the cup? Jehovah Nasi, Lord our banner,
you trust him to look to him, to run to him where he is, where
he's preached. Stay there with me. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord our
peace. Do you trust him to make peace with God for you by his
blood? Or are you still leaning on your works just to look at
it? Do you trust the cost of something
you did? I was baptized. I made a profession of faith.
I walked the aisle. I took the Lord's table. I couldn't be going
to hell. Jehovah Ray, the Lord my shepherd,
do you trust him to protect you, provide for you, and guide you,
and feed you, and do everything, give you all your shots, and
trim your toenails, and whatever is needed for sheep? Do you trust
him to do that? Well, he can do this, but I'll
do that. He can feed me sometimes, but I'm gonna feed myself. Jehovah Sid Kenyon, the Lord
our righteousness, do you trust him to be all of your righteousness
without any help from you? 100% surrender and the Lord's
present always Jehovah Shema even when you don't think so
oh I don't feel like you've been there's been a rough week it's
been a lonely week been a quiet week Do I surrender 99% to Him? Or
do I say, He said so, I believe it, I don't care if I feel it.
I'll get over it. I'll feel better next week. These
are not conditional ifs. These are conditional ifs with
eternal consequences. Is Christ the great I am or not? Not what you think of God is,
who He says He is. He's your all in all. He's everything
He says He is, in truth, as He declared. Then the opposite of
this verse is true. It says, I said therefore, verse
24, I said therefore unto you that you shall die in your sins.
For if you believe not that I am, you shall die in your sins. What's
the opposite of that? You are made to believe He is.
Everything He says He is, then you shall have life. I believe
that. Do you have a good doctrinal
position? Can you give a theological explanation of that? No, not
really, but I believe. Life. You have it, right man? Isn't that something? John wrote that already back
in chapter three. He said, he that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
That's the first deal. If you truly believe He is, He's
made you to believe that. He's given you the faith to believe
what He says. And you shall not die in your
sins. That's the beginning. Now, you'll continue in His word. He spoke that word to your heart
to make you believe Him. You'll continue in that word.
Look here in verse 31, John 8, 31. Then Jesus said unto those
Jews which believed on Him. That's who He's talking to. Some
believed Him. They believed He is. He is I
am. He's the Messiah, the anointed
one, the demon. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed. Indeed. This will be the proof.
This will be the evidence to you that you believe me. If you
continue in my word, then you are my disciples indeed. What's
that mean? What's he talking about? Continue in the gospel.
Continue in the faith. Continue looking to Christ. Continue
to believe on him. Continue to follow him. Love
him. Paul wrote this. If you continue
in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the
hope of the gospel, I don't want to be moved away. I'm prone to
wander. I'm prone to run. I'm prone to
be like Watt's wife and turn around and beat the beat as hard
as I can back to a burned-in city. That's what I'm wired to
do, my nature given to me by my father Adam. What would I
ask the people? To continue in the word of Christ
is to begin to live and to die the whole way through in faith
that he authored, he gave, and he finished it. He keeps doing
it. He starts the work, he's gonna finish the work. Kevin, I don't agree with you.
Well, you thank God for it. My pastor had a very good thing.
He said, go home, take your Bibles, let him read it, and see if I'm
lying to you. It ain't gonna happen. I'll
just tell you what he said. He said, these are simple sentences,
ain't they? That's sweet to me, I like it like that. I don't
need nothing complicated, I might get lost in the sausage stuff.
Tell me plainly, Lord, and he did. He did, didn't he? Turn
over Hebrews chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2. Verse 19, Hebrews 10, 19, it
says, Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us through the veil. That's to say, his flesh.
That's how this all comes to play. How could this be? How
could I believe that He is the I Am? He had to die for me to
give me life. How could I continue in His Word?
He had to die for me to give me life, to continue in it. How
could I be kept to the end? He had to die for me to do it.
He had to give Himself for me to do this. When we read the
Psalms, Brother Mark read earlier. It's hard to read the Psalms
sometimes, and we know they're all Messianic Psalms, but how
could Christ say them? How could that be? That's because
I had to, and I didn't. He did it for me. Then it's a little more precious.
Then it's precious. I know in living way, verse 20,
which he had consecrated for us, the veil that sustained his
flesh, and having a high priest over the house of God, let us
draw near. Let us continue side by side
with him. With a true heart and full assurance
of the faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience,
and our bodies washed with pure water, let us hold fast, let
us continue, don't let him go, the profession of our faith without
wavering, for he is faithful that follows. Isn't that something
from 1 Corinthians 6? I can't hold fast, I'll let go,
I'm gonna have to sleep. You know that? You had to hold
on to a life raft, you're in a raging ocean. At some point,
you might have to sleep. How am I gonna hold on without
wavering? For he is faithful that follows. I have. He's faith. He prayed that the
faith he gave us wasn't faith. And let us consider one another
provoked unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but absorbing.
That means draw near in love. Let us draw one another near
in love. And so much more as you see the day approaching.
The end is near. These are the last days. Did
our Lord say that as He walked the earth? He sure did. When's
it going to be? I don't know. As my grandpa has
told me, it ain't going to be as long as it has been. We've
been here 6,000 years. I want to be here 40. It ain't
going to be as long as it has. Let's draw near. We should exult in one another.
Draw near in love. What's the opposite of that?
What is the war part, not the surrender part of this? What's the opposite of drawing
on the party? What's the opposite of love?
That's the opposite. John said they went out from
us, but they were not of us. Where if they had been of us,
they would no doubt have continued with us. Is this rocket science? Is this hard? It's simple, isn't
it? If they were of us, they'd have
stayed with us. Now, they're the prodigal son, I've lived
that. Does that mean shut them out, don't talk to them, close
the door, close your eyes, don't ever speak their name again.
Mark it out. Oh, we hope the Lord draws them back. If they're
His, they'll come back. They'll come back before they die. Because
if He's done it, He's gonna keep them till the end. They will
continue. Demas hath forsaken me, Paul
wrote, having loved this Present world. That's what I'm talking about.
Bright lights, thick smoke, and loud, loud music. Oh, bright
lights and concrete. He loves it. Well, move on up.
He left the gospel. Now, verse 38. Hebrews 10, 38. Now, the judge shall live by
faith. You'll go up on your own, and
the Lord says, leave them alone. Take your brush out, knock the
dust off your feet, and say, the kingdom of God has come down
on you. That's Proverbs, verse 39. But
we are not of them who draw back into tradition, but of them that
believe with the saving of the soul. But, the Lord said in effect,
if you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed. That's like his shouts. You continue
in my word, you are my disciples indeed. Indeed. Not just in profession
with the mouth. Not just in paper, because you
got on the rolls of some church membership somewhere. Not just
in pretend. And not just in playin'. Not
just sometimes, during the week, or twice a week, or something
like that. You are indeed my disciples. Total commitment. 100%. All day, every day. You're
bought with a price. You're our own piece of property.
It's blood brought to you. 24 seconds. Paul warned his friend
Timothy, and then he said this. He said, For now I am now ready
to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have
fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I
have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give me at that day, and not only to me, but
unto them also that love is a period. Love is what founded that. Most
people don't catch that. They say, you're going to fight
a good race and run a good course and all these things. What are
we doing when we do that? Loving is a period. I want to
see my old. I want to be with capital H heaven. I want to do an N. Not a place,
N. It's a good fight, a finished
course, and keeping the faith does not save us. That's only
the evidence. These is. That's only the evidence
that we are safe. Our sister, Doris Makin, used
the illustration when I was born. I saw a little girl skipping.
She walked down, young child, little baby, skipping. Hopping
and skipping. And she said, you know, a child
doesn't skip because, or is not happy because it skips. It skips
because it is happy. We persevere not to be God's
child, but because we are God's child, we persevere to the end. I don't take that lightly. My
heart hurts as one that has to give an account for people that
say good things with their mouth to me, and they might write a
cute little letter sometimes, and then they live the rest of
their life in open rebellion to God. My heart hurts for them. And I want to tell him to stop
their wicked whackings and bow to God. Lord, he's coming. If
you continue in his word, come to Christ and lean on the word
of God. And heaven, we can't do that. He has to ask for mercy to give
us a desire to grab ahold of him. And please, for your sakes,
now I've told you. You can feel the brush,
that's my beard. My back is broken. which us shall live by faith.
We begin in the faith of Christ. That's where our lives come from.
We live by his faith, walking this world in his faith that
he gives, looking in, and we will die in the faith. In Hebrews 11, someone called
it the Hall of Fame of Faith. Kind of gives me goosebumps. I get it. Hebrews 11, 13 says,
all these died in faith. They started, Lord came to them,
sent a preacher to them, either himself or sent one, and they
believed God because he put it in their heart. They continued
in his word all the way to the end, and they died in faith.
Grace started it, and grace grew in them, and they died in grace. That's a comfort to me. People
say, well, that's not fair. I don't know if I'm selling something.
I hate it for selling something, but I'm looking out for me. I'm
the one that's at war with God. I need to hear this. And once
he spit comfort in my heart, then I can say, hey, brethren,
the Lord saved me. Look, come and hear about a man.
And I can tell you something about him. Like on them airplanes,
you put your mask on first, and then you wear it. That's my help.
You should bring the headlocks. When a person is given true faith,
when the grace has worked in their heart for real, not pretend,
when it's for real, there's a new creation, a new creature, there's
a new heart, there's a new walk, there's new companions, there's
a new family. Do you get that? New goals, new
everything. There's a new hope, a new love.
First time ever. Yeah, faith, hope, and love.
Never had that before. It was once written, if a person has
true faith, true love, true hope. It shows in their eyes. It lights
up their countenance. It softens their touch. It mellows
the voice. It bows their head. It bends
their knee. It opens their hand for generosity
and for hugging. It curbs the tongue. It orders
their steps. It gives them peace, and it teaches
them to forgive others for they did forgive. Is that right? Does that love
fail not? Charity suffers long. It fails
not, doesn't it? The text says, if we continue
in my word, then you are my disciples indeed. That's a condition of
war. If we continue. How? The shepherd has to lead
us. He has to protect us. This one that is the I am has
to do it all for me. And I'll willfully do it. My
sheep hear my voice. I know them. And what? They follow
me. And we know who Christ is. And
we are made committed to Him. Now, now you got freedom. I know who He is, in light of
Him, I see who I am. I'm committed to Him. I lay down
my shotgun. I lay down all my pride. I lay
down all my looking out for number one. And I bow to Him, Lord,
I want to serve you in your people. Now, now you got freedom. If
you want freedom, you want liberty, here it is. You ready? Verse 36, John 8, 36. If, it's
a condition, if the Son, therefore, shall make you free, you shall
be free indeed. Let's do it one more time. John
8, 36, you got it? If the Son, therefore, shall
make you free, you shall be free indeed. Oh, that's something. That's something. Turn over to Luke chapter 4.
I brought you back to that We're free from our spiritual
poverty, and we have all of our spiritual blessings in Christ.
We're free from that dead heart of stone that we thought was
fine because we had a beating heart. We thought we saw because
we have eyes that can go look at trees and cone birds and stuff.
And now we have a new heart that's alive. It's alive under God for
the first time. We're free from our captors,
our captors, the sin, death, hell, Satan, the law, free from
all that. And now we're the willing bond servants of our Lord. I can't wait to preach. That
bond right here, they pierced their ears as servants. And when
their time was up, said, you can go, there's an evidence,
you deserve it. Forget that, that's some leftovers. You plant
it outside the cup and that cup will be broken. But they would
go willingly, it's all willing to be respected. I love you,
I ain't leaving you, I'll stay with you, you're a good man.
We're now his servants. We're free from our blindness.
Now we see Christ, that great I am, and that we see that his
word is true. Every man's a liar. We're free from finally seeing
that we're enslaved and we have freedom. We finally see our freedom,
and we're turned clean loose to serve him. Have at it. All this freedom is found in
the Lord Jesus Christ alone, and we completely accept that.
I believe it won't happen other way. Look here, Luke 4, verse
18. The Lord stood up and read and
he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, on Christ, why? Because
he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. Well
that's good news, that's me. He hath sent me to heal the broken
heart, that's me. To preach deliverance to the
captive. I'm a captive, I'm a captive of sin. I'm a captive of this
old man that's right here with me. In recovery of sight to the
blind. All I know is I was blind, now
I see. And to set at liberty them that
are bruised, to that stain be afraid of. We're at liberty to
preach the acceptable ear of the Lord. We're free from our
poverty, our stony hearts, our captivity, our blindness. Free!
How? Christ was preached. God said he's gonna save his
people by the foolishness of preaching. Somebody says they're
saved, another way, you're a flat-out liar. You're a self-righteous,
hypocritical liar. If I could say that strongly,
I would. Who did all this? Who did all
this releasing? Did we release ourself on our
own recognizance because the law couldn't offer us anything
anymore? I think it gave me all I could have, now I'll release
myself. No, no, no. We didn't just figure out the
way, We didn't figure the cross out. We didn't get a corner on
God and figure the cross out. We came to the doctrines of grace.
Oh, no. Our text says, if the Son, therefore,
shall make you free. He does the work. Free. Free.
Now you're free. Kind of free. Free indeed. Completely free. Completely free. He sets us free and we're plumb
free indeed. He saves you. You're plumb safe
completely. No matter what, and no one can
lay charge to his elect. It's Christ that died gay, that's
risen in me. Not even me, that's why I wrote that text in my book.
Not even me, when I look in me, not even me. That's good news.
That's good news. From Bill Clark, there an England
once said, he goes through, they asked him what the believer's
rule of life was. And boy, he talked about just the peacock's
feather just shooting out of their hand. Oh, people get back
flips. He said, believe Christ, trust
him, Love him and do whatever you want with him. What's wrong? What's wrong? What's going to constrain someone
to do whatever you want? The legalist just does backflips. They try to explain away God's
word. He says, I've set you free, go free. Well now, hold on now. Now this means, it means exactly
what he just said. You're free, and you ain't going
anywhere into it unless you start back in that first law of surrender. No, he's God. He's able to do
these kind of things. Man, ain't he? We gotta quit
thinking our way and start thinking the way he says he does things.
What's gonna constrain somebody? Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5,
when the love of Christ constrained us. Oh, now I'm talking about
love. What about the law? That law is loving. If you have
a heart of love, you can lift that law and say, oh, you have
to have a handrail around the top of your house. That's one
of the more biblical laws. God had code enforcement. Building
codes. Why? Well, if you fall off, I
gotta put a handrail up. God says so. You go out and kick
rocks. What if your neighbor's children was outside and you
fell off the roof? That's what that did to that child. You love
them children? Put a handrail on the roof. Now the law is precious,
isn't it? Now it's written in the law.
I delight in your law, Lord. Now I see from love's standpoint, I mean,
crossed my high tower looking from the eyes of love. Now I
see why. Boy, this is holy. This is good. I can't keep it. I want to. Boy, this is right. The heart's changed. It's constraining
us. It means to hold together, to
compress, to arrest, to afflict, to preoccupy. His love will engulf
us. Or if somebody wanted to run
around drinking and driving and doing cocaine and being a sodomizer,
go for it. If. Go ahead, go ahead, do it. But if that's what, you know
whose you are. Really. You know whose you are. You know who he is. He's the
great I am. I'm bought with a price. I'm he. And I believe him. And
I love him. And you know what? I don't want
rank reproach on the gospel. I don't want to do these things.
I want to serve him and his people. Now you're going to do what you
want. I want to serve God. Love him, believe him, love his
people. That's it. Those he abides in.
Be careful. This is the battle fought all
around. And the child of God is free. That's what it says
in Matthew 17. And they were coming to concur
him. They had received tribute money, came to Peter and said,
does the offshore master pay tribute? And he said, yes. When
he was coming to the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thanks
thou, Simon? Of whom do the kings of the earth
take custom or tribute? Who do they pay taxes from? Their
own children or strangers? And Peter said unto him, Strangers.
And Jesus said unto him, Then are the children free. We're
children of the king. We know who he is. We believe
him. We continue in his word, and
we're free. We're free. Fourthly, from John 8. If you truly believe he is, then
you will not die, nor sin. If you continue in his word,
then you're his disciple. If he sets you free, you are
competent and free from all bondage and all condemnation. And fourthly,
if you're his child, you do the works of his other children. Verse 39, the answer said unto
him, Abraham is our father, we must stand on our heritage. Jesus
said unto them, if ye were Abraham's children, his spiritual children,
You would do the works of Abraham. Now we could go a long time in
the faith of Abraham. Abraham believed God. What was
the foundation of all that? The Lord working in him. The
Lord making him live, right? Because he loved him with an
everlasting love. Look here at verse 4. But now you seek to
kill me, a man that hath told you the truth. which I have heard
of God. This did not Abraham. Lord, Abraham
had faith. Abraham believed God, and it
was counted unto him for righteousness. That's true, that Lord's speaking
here of Abraham's love. You see that? What's the opposite
of trying to kill someone? Loving them. Ain't that the opposite? If then, if you believe him,
belief is love. If you know who God is, you love
him. If he's gave you a new heart,
then see him as he is. If you see him as the enemy,
You want to hide from the rocks and the mountains, don't you?
That didn't bother him. If you believe him, you love him. Back
there in John 6, it says, And they said unto him, What shall
we do that we might work the works of God? He said, This is
the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. Conditions of war. If you're
a child of God, if you're a spiritual Israel, you do what Abraham did. You love. You don't seek to kill. You don't seek to murder, harm,
or maim. Look at verse 41. You, these are your fathers.
Then said they unto him, We be not born of fornication. We weren't
born in sin. We have one Father, God. Be a
son of them, if God were your Father, you would love me. Could
you imagine going to this sin-cursed world that's so religious? Those
stadiums out of Texas, Texas, packed with 45,000 people every
Sunday. I'd say, if you love God, you
would love Christ. Well, I love Jesus. No, the one
that he declares himself to be is God. The all and in all. You're Abraham's seed, so that's
spiritual, isn't it? You love him. You believe him. You continue
in his word. When he gives a birth, verse
44, he says, you're your father, the devil, and the lust of your
father, you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning
and above, not the truth, because there is no truth in it. He speaketh
a lie. He speaketh of his own, for he's
a liar and a father. And because I tell you the truth, you believe not. I love you. Which of you convinced me of
sinning? He said, which one of you helped charge me? Even Pilate
said that, didn't he? He said, I found no fault in
this, by the way. And he said, I'm gonna wash my
hands of this. He said, which of you convinced me of sinning?
And if, if I say the truth, by the yet
unholy, that's compassion. And those,
they started this chapter trying to stone a woman, and they're
gonna end this chapter by trying to stone him. That's a broad,
a 30,000-foot view of substitution. If I deserved to die, they're
not trying to get me in there. And he says, if I tell you the
truth, and you know I didn't, I ain't lying to you. Why don't
you do it? Because you don't. Can ain't
involved. I want you to know that he is
the great I am. I won't have this memory. No. I want you to continue in his
word. I'm going to do it my way. Go
Frank Sinatra, I did it my way. I won't tell you. I want you
to believe it. You know it's true. Anywhere I go, Jesus, the son
of God, yeah, yeah, he's never related. And did he lie? No,
he didn't lie. Did he save people from sin?
Yeah, I think so. That's what grandma told me. Well, why don't
you believe him? Why don't you follow him? Why don't you go learn from him? That's what we're exhorted to
do. The time has drawn nigh. The end's near. And my end may
be in the next 15 minutes. I didn't study this work. I didn't
know who this judge of heaven and earth is. I didn't know what
I am. I didn't cry out for mercy. Yeah. I'll say the truth. Well, I do
not believe him. We're not allowed to draw back
folks. I believe him. By his grace, by his love, I
have believed the Lord. I believe it. He's made me believe
it. If you say that ain't fair, oh
it's real Fisher, to me, not fair to you. I believe in the
day. I do. This is true faith of him
that he's put in me. I'll believe in tomorrow and
I'll stick with him to my death day because he's sticking to
me closer than a brother would. That's a freedom. That's a freedom. He says the truth. Why don't
I believe? Oh, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. Everything. The practical stuff. Anything. Those are all words, truths.
Help me believe you. Make me believe you. Verse 51
says, barely, barely. 1 to 27, barely, barely says
John. Barely, barely I say unto you,
if a man keep my say, he shall never see death. What say? All this. Everything he says. Is he lying? Mm-hmm. Why don't
you believe him? You believe him? I do. You'll
never see death. You'll never see death. That's
comforting. There's a war going on. I hope
that's a comforting thing, because one person I was preaching to,
and one person on earth, and I said, there's a war going on,
and I pointed it out. Here's the terms of surrender.
You bow to it. I lay down my arms, my guns,
my gunpowder, box, stock, barrel, everything. That's what we're
preaching for. And I grab ahold of you and make
my hands stay held to you. Keep me coming to you. Keep me
faithful to you. That way when that hope is seen, faith is now
sought, that love will remain.